A good wanderer leaves no trace.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.